That leaves most of the public, and even many scientists, on the wrong side of a paywall from knowing the latest goings on in their fields. To help speed the flow of scientific information, the National Institutes of Health has mandated a policy where any papers derived from research it funds are made public within a year of their publication; the Obama administration is now trying to expand that policy so it covers all federal agencies. Meanwhile, lots of journals have been founded that are open access from the start—as soon as a paper is available, anyone can download a copy. There have been many developments in open access publishing lately, so we thought we'd do a rundown of the latest news. PeerJ launches and expands. BMC Biology turns 10 and looks at the challenges of peer review. F1000 goes from pre-prints to real prints.
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